The problem with what Schrier did is that it could effect Square-Enix's stock price. He's lucky he didn't get sued for that. Investors don't really know the difference and Square-Enix has to counter otherwise it might cost them money.
He probably did it on purpose, people like Schrier have a real bone to pick with Japan, he's probably been seething over the fact that Square-Enix released a AAA caliber game with a large breasted female character in it.
Or it was purely wishful thinking on his part of what he wishes would happen, they'd love for western companies just to buy up all the Japanese game companies and then Wokify them all (ie ugg up all the female characters)
You've got to remember, people like Schrier aren't gamers, they don't actually give a single fuck about video games, what they care about is spiting people they don't like, ie the "Gamergaters"
Every hobby SJWs infiltrate they don't actually give a single fuck about the hobby itself, it's just a means to an end to give them what they really want and that's spiting people they don't like, everything else is a distant second to the joy they feel when they spite their enemies by taking away something they like.
They didn't take over western gaming culture. These people stay in their shit filled hovels and don't venture outside their safe zone. They're not even in the majority when it comes to sheer numbers.
I said mainstream gaming culture, the culture of something like the VGAs which gave The Last of Us 2 over 9000 awards while everyone else was shitting on it.
The funny thing in today's climate is "mainstream" no longer means a large group of people, it just means a certain type of spotlight, the "mainstream" is getting less and less popular by the day with people, ironically enough.
Journalism, well that ship was already on fire and sinking, there's no point or reason to rescue gaming journalism when someone with a youtube channel can do far more actual games journalism than a games journalist.
Not really, gaming journalism was in an interesting place in the early 2010s, there's no reason it had to be as bad as it turned into by going Woke.
But they absolutely fucked it in the ass, forcing people non-professionals to pick up the slack, however like I said in theory it didn't have to be that way were it not for Woke.
Journalism doesn't exist for truth, it exists for clicks. Do we really want clicks to dictate our actions? Like what is this Africa?
This is true, journalism doesn't exist for truth and never has, but it was still better before it went Woke.
Even at the peak of my days reading and enjoying gaming magazines did I not still take things with a grain of salt, I would play games even if they got meh reviews if I thought they were interesting enough, one of my all time favorite games, Haunting Ground, got mediocre reviews from critics.
